Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-11-11

and been nt work, they would not have
been sauntering under the trees and hum
gering after that fruit which destroyed
them and their posterity; proof positive
for oil ages to como that those who do not
attend to their business are sure to get into
mischief. do not know that the prodigal
in Scripture would ever have been re-
habits and gone to feeding swine for a
living. eco to the ant, thou slugeard;
consider her ways and be wise, which,
having no overseer or guide, provideth her
food in the summer and Rathereth her
meat in the harvest" The devil does not
so often attack the man who is busy with
the pen, and the book, and the trowel, and
the saw, and the hammer. He is afraid of
those weapons. But woe to that man
whom this roaring lion meets with his
hands in his pockets. Do not demand
that your toll always be elegant, and
Clearly, and refined. There is certain
amount of drudgery through which we
must all pass, whatever be our occupation.
You know how raen are sentenced--a cer-
tain number to years Of prison, and after
they have suffered and worked out the
time, then they are allowed to 60 free.
And so it is with all of us. God passed
on us the sentences: "By the sweat of thy
brow shalt thou eat bread" We must en-
dure our time of drudgery, and then, after
while, we will be allowed to go into COM
parative liberty. We must be willing to
endure the sentence. We all know what
drudgery is connected with the beginning
OF any trade or profession, but this does
not continue oil our lives, if it be the
students or the merchants or the me-
chanic's life. l know you have at the be-
ginning many hard time; but after
yxhi1o $houo
will be your own master. Gods sentence
will be satisfied. You will be discharged
from prison. Bless God that you have
brain to think, and hands to work, and
feet to walk with, for in your constant
activity, o young man, is one of your
strongest defenses. Put your trust in God
and do your level best. That child had it
right when the horses ran away with the
load of wood, and he sat upon it. When
asked if he was frightened he said: mo,
l prayed 10 God and hung on like
beaver"
Again, profound respect for the Sabbath
will be to the young man o powerful pre-
servative against evil. God has thrust into
the toll and fatigue of life recreative day,
when the soul is especially to be fed. It
is no new tangled notion of d-brained
reformcr, but an institution established at
the beginning. God has made natural and
moral laws SO harmonious that the body as
we'll as the soul demands this institution.
Our bodies are seven day clocks, they
must be wound up so often as that, or they
will run down. Failure must come sooner
or later to the man who breaks the Sab
bath. Inspiration has called it the Lords
day, and he who devotes it to the world is
guilty of robbery. God will not let the sin
go unpublished, neither in this world or the
world to come. This is the statement of
q man who had broken this divine enact.
ment:
II was engaged in manufacturing on the
Lehigh River. On the Sabbath used to
rest, but never regarded God in it. One
beautiful Sabbath, when the noise was all
hushed and the day was all that loneliness
could make it, sat down on my piazza
and went to work inventing new shuttle.
I neither stopped to eat nor drink till the
sun went down. By that time I had the
exhibited it, boosted of my days work and
was applauded. The shuttle was tried and
worked we'll, but that Sabbath days work
cost me 100000. We branched out and en-
larged, and the curse of heaven was upon
me from that day onward"
While the divine frown must rest upon
him who tramples upon this statute, Gods
special favor will be upon that young man
who scrupulously observes it. This day,
properly observed, will throw a hallowed
influence over all the week. The song and
sermon and sanctuary will hold back from
presumptuous scenes. That young man
who begins the duties of life with either
secret or open disrespect of the holy day,
prominent successes, Gods curse will
fall upon his ship, his store, his Office, his
studio, his body, and his soul. The way of
the wicked He.turneth upside down. In
one of the old fables it was said that a
wonderful child was born in Bagdad and a
magician could hear his footsteps 5000
miles away. But can hear in The foot
step of that young man, on his way to the
house of worship this morning, step not
only of lifetime of usefulness, but the
coming step of eternal joys of heavens yet
millions of miles away.
There are magnificent possibilities be-
fore each of you young men of the stout
heart, and the buoyant step, and the
bounding spirit. would marshal you for
grand achievement. God now provides
for you the feet and the armor and the
| Notifications. Who is on the Lords side?
The captain of the zouaves in ancient
times, to encourage them against the i'm
mense odds on the side of their enemies,
said: "Come, my men, look these fellows
in the face. They are 5000, you are 800.
Surely the match is even." That speech
| gave them the victory. Be not, my nearer,
I dismayed at any time by what seems an
immense odds against you. Is fortune, is
want of education, are men, are devils
against you? Though the multitudes
of earth and hell confront you, stand up to
the charge. With 1,OOo,O00 against you
the match is just even. Nay, you have a
decided advantage. If God be for us, who
can be against us? Thus protected, you
need not spend much time in answering
your assailants.
Many years ago word came to me that
two impostors, as Temperance lecturers,
had been speaking in Ohio in various
! places and giving their experience. and
| they told their audience that they had long
been intimate with me and had become
drunlSards by dining at my table, where
always had liquors of all sorts. Indignant
to the last degree went down to Patrick
! Campbell, chief of Brooklyn police, saying
I was going to start that night for Ohio to
have these villains arrested, and I wanted
him to tell me how to make the arrest. He
smiled and said: "Do not waste your
time by chasing these men. Go home and
do your work, and they can do you nc
HARM" l took his counsel and oil was
we'll. Long ago made up my mind that
if one will put his trust in God and be
faithful IN t1utv he mead NOT fear any evil,